Cancer stem cells created with technique developed at Stanford University. [ + ]

Technique called EMI traces origins of disease genes in people with mixed ancestry. [ + ]

At the Sir Mark Oliphant Conference on Vaccine and Immunotherapy Technologies in Canberra on 9–10 April, Prof Stephen Kent  described how the immune system can be primed to attack the HIV virus more strongly.

CSIRO research is paving the way for the production of novel biomaterials from bee and ant silk. [ + ]

A course in self management and managing others is being facilitated by SIA.

Almost everywhere humans have gone in their peregrinations around the planet, the world's second most ubiquitous mammal, the black rat, Rattus rattus, has followed. [ + ]

Using a supercomputer, reaserchers have sped up redox potential calculations for potential drugs.

Staff from the CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Precision Optics and the National Measurement Institute have played an integral part in redefining the kilogram.

Salvador, Warts, Hippo and Yorkie are an eclectically named group of genes that form the core components of a signalling pathway in Drosophila that regulates control of organ size and may have some important parallels with human cancer. [ + ]

Australian Stem Cell Centre expands up north. [ + ]

Suzanne Cory and Jim Peacock among top ten most cited Australian researchers. [ + ]

Citation is the life-blood of many scientists. Thomson Scientific Citation Awards acknowledge those scientists with the highest overall citation rankings.

The opening of the second node of Australia's Stem Cell Centre will strengthen Australia's biotechnology capability.

The grandmother hypothesis suggests women survive for years after menopause in order to help their offspring to reproduce, but why do human females stop reproducing in the first place? [ + ]

UK scientists have successfully created human-animal hybrid embryos using nuclear transfer. [ + ]